Joseph Sutton: 14 books

*This Writing Life: A Writer Writes On!* is the third of Joseph Sutton’s books on writing. This is not your run-of-the-mill writing book. It’s different because Sutton, a writer of almost 50 years, is a staunch cheerleader for beginning and unknown writers. He believes that any writer who takes...

"Father and Son" chronicles Joseph Sutton’s relationship with his son Ray, giving a year-by-year account of his thoughts and feelings for his son as he grew from an infant into a man. Sutton’s fatherly concerns, insights, imperfections and range of emotions are openly revealed. Whether you’re...

After the Giants moved from New York to San Francisco in 1958, it took them 53 years to win their first World Series in 2010. Incredible. Their next title came in 2012. Miraculous. Then, in 2014, they became world champions again. Magical. It’s very rare in professional baseball, or any other professional...

A collection of 11 short stories based on author Joseph Sutton's Syrian Jewish background. The title story, "The Life and Death of Abraham Massry," is about a Jewish immigrant from Syria, Abraham Massry, who wants his American-born son Jake to follow the business and marriage path taken...

“These are the times that try men’s souls,” wrote Thomas Paine in 1776. Yes, these Trump Times are trying a lot of men and women’s souls. Being a writer, I can no longer be silent, for as professional football player Michael Bennett has said, “There’s a point where silence is becoming...

Write Now! is a Big/little book about writing, writer's block, rejection, publishing and selling your book. It is also the story of the making of a writer.

A powerful book about writing and the writing process, this book will motivate both beginning and professional writers to sit down and write as swiftly as they can to generate ideas or to break out of a writer's block. Writing will become a joyful act instead of a chore. All aspects of writing...

This used car buying guide will show you how much a used car is really worth and how to negotiate the very best deal for it with a professional salesperson or private party.

It's 1969. Joshua Sampson, a teacher in a predominantly black high school in South Central Los Angeles, discovers the only way to break through a wall of apathy with his students is to let them teach. Sampson's students, with his guidance, lead discussions on Black Power, drugs, the war...

"Morning Pages" is about a writer, Ben Halaby, who is suffering from writer's block. He accidentaly stumbles across "The Artist's Way," a book about creativity by Julia Cameron. Cameron's basic principle for breaking out of a block is to write three-pages-nonstop-first-thing-in-the-morning-for-84-days....

This collection of short stories covers a wide range of subjects—from homelessness, sex and sports to school and animal stories. Plus, there's a cruel mother-in-law story, a story about an unthinking neighbor, a story about a man who saves Manhattan from disaster, a story about faith, and even...

Grouped into 120 alphabetized categories (from "Achievement" to "Kindness" to "Young and Old"), this collection of more than 2,000 highly enlightening, inspiring and often humorous quotations covers all aspects of health—be it mental, physical, spiritual or emotional...

When the woman Jake Massry lives with leaves him for another man because he can't succeed as a writer, and his old world father, on his deathbed, orders him to get a "real" job, Jake, to get his head straight, hits the highways of America in his worn-out VW bus Old Bones in search of himself...

A collection of sixteen short stories dealing with classic American themes of heroes and mentors, roller-coaster relationships, sports, coming of age, and aging. These stories deal with humanity's goodness and wickedness, loyalty and betrayal, rage and exultation, triumph and defeat.